"Excerpts from Mozi" Self-Quiz

. What is the aim of a benevolent person, according to Mozi?

Helping people if they need it

Helping the people immediately in your life, like friends and family

Helping others, as long as it doesn't have any bad effects for you or your family

Promoting what is beneficial and eliminating what is harmful

. On Mozi's view, what does it mean to be impartial?

Helping people if they need it

Not treating your family any differently than a stranger

Doing for others as one would do for oneself

Giving up everything in your own life for others

. Which of the following isn't an objection to impartiality that Mozi considers?

That it is impossible to practice impartiality

That it harms filial piety

That it is too difficult to be impartial

None of the above

. Why doesn't Mozi think that impartiality harms familial piety?

Because familial piety isn't that important anyways

Because being impartial towards others' parents will make them treat your parents better

Because one's parents will always prefer one be impartial

Because partiality towards one's parents will make them reliant and so worse off

. According to Mozi, we would be better off as a state if . . .

Our leaders were less concerned with obtaining fine things, like pearls

Our leaders focused more on increasing the clothes, food, and houses we have

We simplified the things in our lives, like our clothes and houses

All of the above

. The business of a benevolent person, according to Mozi, is promoting what is beneficial and eliminating what is harmful.

True

False

. Mozi argues that the real harms in life come from impartial people who don't recognize individuals as particular individuals.

True

False

. Mozi thinks that impartiality would play more of a role in our lives if we had superiors who favored impartiality.

True

False

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